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Transcription of Interview with Willis A. Adcock for the TI History Project; Interview with Willis Adcock by Kenneth Martin for the TI History Project
No full textWillis Adcock was interviewed by Buzz Selby on September 29, 1976 and Kenneth Martin on October 8, 1982 as a part of Haggerty's project on the history of Texas Instruments. This contains both interviews. Adcock discusses graduating from Hobart College in 1943 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. He also discusses his work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and on nuclear instrumentation in the X-10 area of the Manhattan Project at Clinton Labs in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Adcock graduated from Brown University in 1948 with a degree in Physical Chemistry and won the Potter prize for Thesis of Highest Merit. He discusses working on synthetic fuels at Stanolind Oil & Gas Company until Gordon Teal invited him to come to Texas Instruments in 1953. Adcock discusses his discovery of a new iron compound, working in the fundamental studies of catalysts, and working on a crystal puller, growing silicon crystals, before eventually developing the silicon transistor in 1954 with his team. Adcock discusses his work on near-infrared detectors and developing a grown diffused method for making high-frequency germanium and silicon transistors. Adcock discusses his role as the manager of the Development Department where his team encouraged Jack Kilby to join TI, and through a contract with the Air Force and the Minuteman program, working on using planar technology with integrated circuits
Interview with Kenneth West.
No full text90 minutes and 39 seconds interview with Kenneth West. Kenneth West was born in Leicester in 1922. He went to work at Faire Brothers Ltd. as a mechanical engineer until he was called up in 1943 to serve in WW2. He describes working in the factory before going to war including the bombing of Freeman, Hardy and Willis, the factory fire brigades, fire watch duty , the workforce and the social events. He then describes coming back to work at Faire Brothers after WW2, entertainment during WW2 including trips to the cinemas in Leicester, hearing Julie Andrews sing live at the Savoy Cinema, dances at the Bell Hotel and Palais de Danse. He talks about the American soldiers in Leicester and the colour segregation amongst them, meeting Gordon Rolls, the smell of the tannery, Faire Brothers closure and being made redundant, working at Wykes, WW2 and the British restaurant, family life, Curve and the Cultural Quarter, Scout gangshows and the ghost at Faire Brothers
Valuing Water Service Level Changes: A Random Utilty Approach and Benefit Transfer Comparison
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Distribution of willingness-to-pay for speed reduction with non-positive bidders: Is choice modelling consistent with contingent valuation?
No full textThe paper addresses the issue of consistency between two commonly employed stated preference data—referendum contingent valuation (CV) and discrete choice modelling (CM)—with respect to estimated distributions of individual willingness-to-pay (WTP) for non-market goods. The policy context is that of a local externality: effective speed reduction by means of traffic-calming in towns crossed by fast roads. In particular, data from two independent samples of the same population are contrasted. The findings show that both methods indicate that speed reduction via traffic-calming is valued in a polarized fashion. Results from both methods are consistent with the presence of two groups of preferences: a larger group holding positive values and a smaller one with non-positive values. While the estimates of the relative proportions of the two groups are similar across the two data sources, once the econometric analysis of the CM responses allows for polarized preferences the estimates of the distribution of individual WTP differ substantially. The results from the choice modelling survey indicate that residents are also willing to pay for other benefits from traffic-calming, such as noise reduction and a decreased waiting time for crossing, but preferences for these are also polarized, with WTP for aesthetic improvements being positive only for those supporting effective speed control. In comparing distributions of value estimates from CM and CV, surveys practitioners should account for the effects of taste heterogeneity over externalities and take advantage of the ability to derive individual-specific WTP estimates from panel estimation rather than simply deriving estimates for common features of the WTP distribution
Interview with Kenneth Sprunt
No full textKenneth Sprunt was born in Wilmington in 1920, the third son of James Lawrence Sprunt. The Sprunts have a long history in and around Wilimington. His grandfather was a cotton merchant in the area and his great-great Uncle is the man for whom James Sprunt Community College is named for as well as the author of Chronicles of the Lower Cape Fear. Mr. Kenneth Sprunt relates his family history both before his birth and after. He spent three years in the Coast Guard during WWII primarily working on anti-submarine warfare in small boats
Comparing Individual-Specific Benefit Estimates for Public Goods: Finite Versus Continuous Mixing in Logit Models
No full textMulti-attribute stated preference data, derived through choice experiments, is used to investigate the consequence of a finite number of preference groups in a sample of Yorkshire Water residential customers on the conditional distributions of willingness to pay in the sample. The research focuses on public good' values, and retrieves the implicit customer specific welfare measures conditional on a sequence of four observed choices. We assess and contrast the sample evidence for the presence of a finite number of 2, 3, 4 and 5 latent preference groups (classes), and contrast these with the presence of a continuous distribution of parameter estimates using mixed logit models. The main focus is the conditional valuations in the form of marginal values for the consequence of waste water handling and treatment, namely: river water quality, area flooding by sewage, presence of odour and flies, and other water related amenities
Students to speak on art include (left to right) Kenneth Willis, Christine Wollner and Dick Moore
No full textStudents to speak on art include (left to right) Kenneth Willis, Christine Wollner and Dick Moore of North Side. They are standing side by side each other, both guys are wearing a suit, while Miss Wollner standing in the middle of the two guys is wearing a skirt suit with a ribbon in her hair. Image appeared in Star-Telegram Students will Speak on Art, Star-Telegram Evening Edition February 23, 1940.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/1984/thumbnail.jp
Memorandum from Kenneth Iyeko
No full textMemorandum from Kenneth Iyeko regarding establishment and support of the Japanese American Citizens' League at incarceration camps operated by War Relocation Authority.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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[Portrait of Kenneth Lavender]
No full textPhotograph of Kenneth Lavender sitting in Willis Library. He is leaning back in a chair with both hands behind his head, looking out to the left of the camera and smiling
A Review by Kenneth Atkinson of Alexandria and Qumran: Back to the Beginning, by Kenneth Silver
No full textKenneth Silver (a.k.a. Kenneth A. K. Lönnqvist), is a historian and professional archaeologist, who has lived and worked for decades in the Near East. With extensive publications on Hellenistic and Roman archaeology, history, and numismatics, Silver is the director of a survey and mapping project in Northern Mesopotamia studying the border zone between the late Roman/ Byzantine Empires and Persia. Author of numerous publications on Qumran and related topics, Silver’s lengthy monograph proposes that the documents and type of library found at Qumran were based on models derived from Egypt. The main thesis of the volume is that Pythagorean philosophy is the core and basis for the beliefs reflected in the non-Biblical texts found at Qumran
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